Three years ago at a small private dinner at Lord’s, Andy Flower gave a
presentation to a group of City financiers in aid of the Chance to Shine
charity, which takes cricket to state schools. Being numbers men, the aim
was to show these financiers how planning and analysis in cricket had moved
on through the use of statistics and number crunching. They were fascinated;
I learnt a lot.

England were about to play Sri Lanka that summer, and Flower used the example
of Kumar Sangakkara, the Sri Lanka batsman, to show how they might plan to
get him out.